Prosecutors said Miller and Amin Walker Jr., 17, demanded the victim's belongings and chased him before firing three shots. Kumse fell and was injured while the teens fled in a van, which was stolen from a group home.

"I was scared, I was scared to death. And I think you were probably scared too. Holding a gun and shooting at someone may have given you a sense of bravado at that time, that you were proving your manhood. But guns do not make you a man, responsibility makes a man," Father Kumse said.

"How quickly those feelings of being the man melt away in the face of consequences of your actions and you find yourself nothing more than just a scared teenager."

Terrance Kimbrough, 16, who was the driver, was sentenced to seven years in prison. Kenitra Robinson, 19, was given probation and community service in connection with the case.